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Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
16.05.2024, 12:05 Uhr. OffGuardian - https: - Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling of farmland prices from 2010-2015. Land prices in the US agricultural heartlands of Iowa quadrupled between 2002 and 2020. Agricultural...
Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
16.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: De-Dollarization Bombshell - The Coming Of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem Authored by Pepe Escobar, Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem. Welcome to The Unit – a concept that has already been discussed by the financial services and investments working...
A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom
16.05.2024, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale Of Too Many Laws And Too Little Freedom Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.” - Simone Weil, French philosopher We...
"Make Innocence Great Again": Mothers Gear Up To Decide The 2024 Elections
16.05.2024, 04:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Make Innocence Great Again": Mothers Gear Up To Decide The 2024 Elections Authored by Russ Jones via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A voter casts her ballot with her child during the midterm primary election at a polling station at Rose Hill Elementary School in Alexandria, Va., on June 21, 2022. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) “Make innocence great again...
Crypto-Libertarian Erik Voorhees Warns Your Chatbot Queries Are Not Safe
15.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Crypto-Libertarian Erik Voorhees Warns Your Chatbot Queries Are Not Safe Crypto-libertarian Erik Voorhees, fresh off his passionate defense of crypto in the 'Gold vs. Bitcoin' debate recently hosted by ZeroHedge, spoke with crypto news site Unchained's Laura Shin and Venice's COO Teana Baker-Taylor about the alarming honeypots of user search...
April Cass Data Shows No Improvement In Freight Demand
15.05.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - April Cass Data Shows No Improvement In Freight Demand By Todd Maiden of FreightWaves Another month passed without signs a recovery in the freight cycle was on the horizon. “Still waiting for it,” Cass’ April update on volumes and pricing stated. The shipments component of the Cass Freight Index fell again in the month, down 1.6% seasonally adjusted...
Stimulus Today Costs Dearly Tomorrow
15.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stimulus Today Costs Dearly Tomorrow Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Since the pandemic-related bazooka of fiscal stimulus, the outstanding Federal debt has risen appreciably. In nominal dollar terms, the recent debt surge is mindboggling. However, the increase is on par with the government’s negligent ways over the last...
Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking
15.05.2024, 19:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bitcoin Paves The Way For A New Era Of Free Market Banking Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, Hal Finney was a pioneering computer scientist, cryptographer, and prominent Cypherpunk who played a crucial role in the early development of Bitcoin. He was one of the first supporters, contributors, and adopters of Bitcoin. In short, Finney...
RFK Jr. And AV24 Super PAC Sue Meta, Alleging Election Interference
15.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - RFK Jr. And AV24 Super PAC Sue Meta, Alleging Election Interference Authored by Matt McGregor via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy and the super PAC backing him have filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc., for election interference after it allegedly shadow banned the documentary “Who is Bobby...
VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden?
14.05.2024, 22:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - VDH: Has America Finally Had It With Joe Biden? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson, Joe Biden’s personal approval rating is at historic lows; almost all his policies do not poll fifty percent. He is behind Trump in almost all the swing states. And now he lies serially even to sympathetic interviewers. In short, finally Biden has been exposed for what...
Peter Schiff: All Inflation Has One Source
14.05.2024, 20:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peter Schiff: All Inflation Has One Source Via SchiffGold.com, Last week, Peter appeared on This Week in Mining with Jay Martin. Jay and Peter discuss the state of the economy, the government’s assault on sound money, and why the mining sector constitutes a good investment. Early on in the interview, Peter lays out the dilemma the Federal Reserve...
Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs
14.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will impose a 100 percent tariff—quadrupling the current 25 percent—on electric vehicles imported from China in 2024. In addition to EVs, the White House has significantly increased tariffs on Chinese...
Will The Fed Lose Control?
14.05.2024, 01:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The Fed Lose Control? Authored by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity, According to new reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees, Social Security and a Medicare fund that pays for hospital expenses will both begin running deficits in 2035 and 2036. Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, Congress was too preoccupied...
Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can
13.05.2024, 17:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Even If Powell "Can't See The Stag And Can't See The Flation", Consumers Can By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Bumps and Potholes UK Q1 GDP surprised to the upside at the end of last week to print at +0.6%, rather than the more modest 0.4% that market economists had been expecting. That means that Britain is officially out of recession...
Apple Reportedly Near Deal To Infuse ChatGPT Into iPhones
13.05.2024, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Apple Reportedly Near Deal To Infuse ChatGPT Into iPhones Apple is nearing a deal with Microsoft-backed OpenAI to infuse its large language model, known as ChatGPT, into the future iPhone operating system, according to Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the discussions. The two sides have been finalizing terms for a pact to use ChatGPT...
Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms
13.05.2024, 14:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Gain With All Time Highs In Sight As Key CPI Report Looms US equity futures extended last week's solid gains when they traded just about 1% below all time highs, as investors awaited key CPI later this week that will shape the Fed's actions in coming months. As of 7:30am, contracts on the S&P 500 rose about 0.2% (but still below Friday's highs)...
Who Are We Protecting, And From What?
13.05.2024, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who Are We Protecting, And From What? Authored by Omid Malekan via Medium.com, Gambling is increasingly legal in the US: Casinos, sports betting, the lottery, and so on. The economic benefits of most forms of gambling are limited. There is some job creation and collection of additional taxes, but these benefits come at the expense of players. Put differently:...
Völkermord: Alle Spanischen Universitäten werden ihre Beziehungen zu Israelischen Universitäten aussetzen
13.05.2024, 12:06 Uhr. uncut-news.ch - https: - Es gibt 50 öffentliche und 26 private Schulen. Die Fakultät der Universität Barcelona sagt, dass “Israel Völkermord praktiziert”. Die 50 spanischen öffentlichen Universitäten und 26 privaten Universitäten, die in der Konferenz der Rektoren der spanischen Universitäten (Crüe) zusammengeschlossen sind, haben...
Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls
13.05.2024, 02:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Newsom Forced To Slash California Budget, Blames Crippling Deficit On "Rain Bombs" And Tax Shortfalls In the course of two years, California has turned a $100 billion surplus into a $73 billion deficit, forcing governor Gavin Newson (D) to propose painful (token) spending cuts on Friday while announcing his revised state budget. California Governor...
Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged
12.05.2024, 22:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Climate "Reparations" Numbers Are Rigged Authored by Paul Mueller via the American Institute for Economic Research, Nobel Prize–winning economist Esther Duflo thinks rich countries should pay poor countries $500 billion in compensation each year for climate-change damages. It is our “moral debt.” She proposes an international 2-percent wealth...
The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored
12.05.2024, 03:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Proof Of Censorship Is…Censored Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via the Brownstone Institute, It’s not been a good week for the Censorship Industrial Complex. The machine has been built and put into action over nearly a decade but largely in secret. Its way of doing business has been via surreptitious contacts with media and tech companies,...
The Land Of The Setting Sun: The Currency Crisis Of Japan Has Just Started
12.05.2024, 01:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Land Of The Setting Sun: The Currency Crisis Of Japan Has Just Started By Tuomas Malinen of The MT Malinen substack On Tuesday, we shortly commented the flash crash and the (assisted) recovery of the Japanese Yen between Friday and Monday, 26-29 April, on the GnS Economic’s Deprcon Outlook. In this entry, I will detail the reasons behind the crash...
Ackman Badgered By Rich Wokes At Closed-Door Milken Session
11.05.2024, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ackman Badgered By Rich Wokes At Closed-Door Milken Session At this week’s Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, while the financial elite discussed artificial intelligence and Elon Musk's latest ventures, a crucial and fiery debate on diversity unfolded behind closed doors. About 40 attendees, including influential Wall Street figures...
What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis?
10.05.2024, 16:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What’s Behind America’s Doctor Crisis? Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock) Securing an appointment to see a doctor in the United States is exacerbated by soaring health care demand and fewer doctors. Many specializations are increasingly affected by this...
As The Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation
10.05.2024, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As The Dollar Falters, Gold Becomes Insurance, Not Speculation Authored by Douglas French via The Mises Institute, Economics trumps sentimentality, and gold’s elevated price has some people raiding the family jewelry box to pay bills. “Young people are not wearing grandma’s jewels. Most of the young people, they want an Apple watch. They don’t...
New "Guide" Teaches UK MPs To Spot "Conspiracy Theories"
10.05.2024, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New "Guide" Teaches UK MPs To Spot "Conspiracy Theories" Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, The British government has issued a new guidebook to all sitting MPs to help them spot “conspiracy theories”. Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt MP, who commissioned the guide, has warned that: The proliferation of conspiracy theories across...
The TikTok Ban Is The Next Patriot Act
10.05.2024, 05:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The TikTok Ban Is The Next Patriot Act Authored by Aaron Sobczak via The Mises Institute, HR 7521, called the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, is a recent development in American politics. TikTok has been in the news for the past few years, after the public became aware of its connections to China. The popular...
Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms
10.05.2024, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Virtual Home Invasions: We're Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society...
Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes
09.05.2024, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Warns Nationwide Power Outages Coming Amid 'Massive' Russian Strikes Large-scale Russian aerial strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure has become an almost daily event, but Wednesday saw a "massive" wave of Russian missiles launched on vital power grid sites, according to Ukraine authorities. Ukraine is now warning of nationwide power cuts...
The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited
09.05.2024, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Machinery Of Fascism Revisited Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Fascism became a swear word in the US and UK during the Second World War. It has been ever since, to the point that the content of the term has been drained away completely. It is not a system of political economy but an insult. If we go back a decade before...
A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis
09.05.2024, 05:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Deep Dive Into The Opioid Crisis Authored by Matt Bivens, M.D. via Racket News, Editor’s note: the following is the first essay in a series, written by former Moscow Times co-worker and current E.R. doctor Matt Bivens. The remaining features will be published serially on his Substack site, The 100 Days. None of the articles in the series will be...
500 Individuals Recount Discrimination, Sexual Harassment At FDIC In New 200-Page Report
09.05.2024, 00:38 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 500 Individuals Recount Discrimination, Sexual Harassment At FDIC In New 200-Page Report Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, The Federal Deposit Insurance (FDIC) failed to provide its employees a safe workplace free from “sexual harassment, discrimination, and other interpersonal misconduct,” a new report released on Tuesday concluded...
Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders
09.05.2024, 00:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Gen-Zers Slide Deeper Into Debt As Bidenomics Failure Crushes America's Future Leaders It may seem crazy, but here's some advice for heavily indebted Gen-Zers: Put down the smartphone. Stop spending on DoorDash and Uber Eats. Perhaps cancel a few streaming services. Also, the spending party is over despite calls from the White House to cancel student...
The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway
08.05.2024, 23:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The "Soft Landing" Lie: A Global Economic Slowdown Is Already Underway Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, If people have learned anything from the past few years of Ivy League elites and TV talking heads feeding them economic predictions, I hope they finally understand that the “experts” are usually wrong and that alternative analysts...
Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic
08.05.2024, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Finding The Next Apple Using Buffett's Logic Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, On the heels of Apple’s latest earnings report, the Wall Street Journal shared an article discussing how Apple became such an oversized investment of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway. Given their success with Apple shares we think...
Private US Firm With Special Forces Veterans To Take Control Of Rafah Border Crossing
08.05.2024, 18:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Private US Firm With Special Forces Veterans To Take Control Of Rafah Border Crossing Despite the Biden administration repeatedly warning Israeli leadership in public against a full-scale Rafah invasion, President Biden actually greenlighted the IDF's takeover of the Rafah border crossing, Axios has revealed. The report comes amid questions over whether...
US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise
08.05.2024, 14:26 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Futures Mixed As European Stocks Hit All Time High, Yields And Dollar Rise US equity futures flipped between gains and losses on Wednesday while European stocks hit an all time high as May’s rally in equities continued amid a clutch of solid earnings reports. As of 7:45am, S&P 500 futures traded down 0.2%, and was near session lows reversing...
China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024
08.05.2024, 04:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Remains World's Biggest Jailer Of Journalists: World Press Freedom Index 2024 Authored by Alex Wu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A policeman covers a camera to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People's Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28...
China's 2022 Military Spending Reaches $710 Billion, Over Triple What Beijing Announced
08.05.2024, 02:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China's 2022 Military Spending Reaches $710 Billion, Over Triple What Beijing Announced By Frank Fang of Epoch Times China’s communist regime spent $710.6 billion on its military in 2022, more than three times Beijing’s publicly stated totals, according to a report from the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute (AEI). “Considering that...
Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F"
08.05.2024, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Stan Druckenmiller Gives Bidenomics An "F" Billionaire investor and Duquesne Family Office Chairman & CEO Stan Druckenmiller slammed Bidenomics and warned the Federal Reserve and federal government "misdiagnosed Covid and thought it was -- we were going into a depression." Druckenmiller has been irritated by the massive fiscal spending by the...
Title IX Rule Change On Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States
07.05.2024, 20:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Title IX Rule Change On Gender Triggers Lawsuits From 15 States Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration and advising schools to ignore the new federal Title IX changes that expand sex discrimination protection to students who identify as the opposite sex, or...
Florida Becomes First State To Ban 'Fake Meat'
07.05.2024, 19:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Florida Becomes First State To Ban 'Fake Meat' Authored by Patricia Tolson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Florida’s governor has signed a first-of-its-kind bill into law to officially ban lab-grown meat, in a bid to protect the Sunshine State’s cattle industry and its residents. Lab-grown meat is presented in the Disgusting Food Museum in...
Peloton Shares Surge On Private Equity Firm Buyout Report
07.05.2024, 15:13 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Peloton Shares Surge On Private Equity Firm Buyout Report Just one week after Barry McCarthy, CEO of Peloton Interactive, announced his departure following a disastrous tenure that saw shares plummet by 92%, CNBC reports private equity firms are circling the struggling company, known for strapping iPads on fancy exercise bikes and charging wealthy...
What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold?
07.05.2024, 14:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - What Will CBDCs Mean For Gold? Via SchiffGold.com, With the eventual introduction of central bank digital currency (CBDCs) now seemingly inevitable, there are a lot of directions central banks could take with their digital currency projects that would have dramatic implications for the price of gold. Touted for their “convenience” and “efficiency...
Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show
07.05.2024, 13:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sober Gold Vs The Rate-Cut Circus Show Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Poor America. Poor Jerome Powell… A Real Cliff, Fake Smile It is no fun to be openly trapped, and even less fun to be in open decline while meekly declaring all is fine. I have the image of Uncle Sam (or Aunt Yellen) hanging off a cliff with a forced (i.e.,...
Sind die NachDenkSeiten jugendgefährdend?
07.05.2024, 11:11 Uhr. NachDenkSeiten – Die kritische Website - https: - Staatliche Zensur und private Filtermaßnahmen zur Kontrolle des Informationsflusses im Internet sind große Probleme für die Informations- und Meinungsfreiheit. Besonders problematisch ist es, wenn die Filterung unsichtbar im Hintergrund geschieht, politisch motiviert ist und dem Nutzer nicht einmal klar ist, dass, geschweige denn warum...
Mapping The Number Of AI Startups By Country
07.05.2024, 02:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Mapping The Number Of AI Startups By Country Amidst the recent expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu visualized data from Quid (accessed via Stanford’s 2024 AI Index Report) to highlight the top 15 countries which have seen the most AI startup activity over the past decade. The figures in this graphic represent...
The Militia Used As An FBI Front Group In 2020 Is Again Proliferating On Facebook
06.05.2024, 23:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Militia Used As An FBI Front Group In 2020 Is Again Proliferating On Facebook Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, The tech publication Wired reported Thursday that the Three Percenter, or III%er, militia is again proliferating on Facebook ahead of the 2024 presidential election. A car passes Facebook's new Meta logo on a sign at the company...
Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further
06.05.2024, 21:27 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Where Is "Growth" Coming From? Fed Says Banks Tighten Credit Standards While Loan Demand Drops Further The first quarter Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) - the one place where every three months investors go to find information on changes to both loan demand and bank lending tightness - was released and revealed more of the same: despite...